Popular Engines for Games

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1

Ren'py

6 Released 2004 MIT licence

Ren'Py is a free, 2D, and cross-platform engine that helps you make story-based games including visual novels and simulation games. It uses a scripting...

2

RPG Maker XP

2 Released 2004 Commercial licence

The Ultimate RPG MAKER for Windows! Introducing RPG MAKER™ XP, the latest Windows entry in the RPG MAKER series that gives you the power to create your...

3

Mirage Legacy 2D ORPG Engine

183 Released 2013 GPL licence

Unleash the power of a simple yet dynamic engine with the Mirage Legacy, a packed and fully-loaded engine to meet the requirements of your game development...

5

The 3d gamemaker

336 Released 2001 Commercial licence

The 3D gamemaker has a built in placement editor that allows the user to indicate where enemies, items, and obstacles go. this is not available in beginner...

6

Prospekt Source

185 Released 2013 MIT licence

Did you ever wanted fully featured engine what will have everything what real ORPG needs? So your waiting ends right now, it is here. Prospekt Source...

7

Build

103 Released 1993 Proprietary licence

BUILD engine is the game engine behind Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, and many other titles of the 90s. It was one of the most popular engines...

8

Pixel Game Maker MV

285 Released 2018 Commercial licence

Use Pixel Game Maker MV to make your own 2D action games. The latest Maker title provides a simple, fun way to make games with zero coding. Also, you...

9

ZDoom

4 Released 2013 Public Domain licence

ZDoom 2.7.1 (Requires a DOOM, DOOM 2, HERETIC, HEXEN, or STRIFE IWAD) ZDoom is an enhanced port of the official DOOM source code to Win32. As such, it...

10

Visionaire Studio

141 Released 2010 Commercial licence

The easiest way to create an adventure game! The only thing you need is some creativity and imagination, and after a bit of playing around with the program...

11

MANU Video Game Maker

151 Early Access Sep 30, 2023 Commercial licence

MANU is an AI-powered no-code game engine that allows users to create games of any known game genres from scratch. Now in Beta, MANU supports various...

12

OEngine

7 Released 2012 Commercial licence

OEngine is a multiplatform C++ engine with an WYSIWIG editor. It's made to be very flexible, and has been used in many internal prototypes, and is currently...

13

BooBoo

18 Released Jan 1, 2023 Proprietary licence

BooBoo is a fun new programming language with a powerful game API.

14

WOLF RPG Editor

18 Released 2015 GPL licence

WOLF RPG Editor is a game construction tool that can create complex role playing games. It is often regarded as being aimed at advanced users, so keep...

15

Away3D

523 Released 2007 Proprietary licence

A realtime 3D engine for Flash in ActionScript 3.0. Started in 2007 by Alexander Zadorozhny and Rob Bateman. The engine is Open Source under the Apache...

16

RFS2 Engine

388 Early Access 2021 Proprietary licence

The RFS2 Engine powers Retro FPS Studio. It is an advanced 2.5D Raycaster/Portal Renderer hybrid, using true fixed point math software rendering.

17

Drag[en]gine

8 Released 2020 L-GPL licence

The Drag[en]gine is a fully customizable game engine and game development environment designed with modularity and extensibility in mind not requiring...

18

Unity

1 Released 2005 Commercial licence

Unity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity just happens...

19

Raycasting Game Maker

8 Released 2007 Public Domain licence

The Raycasting Game Maker is a free easy to use game editor that creates simple raycasting games in the style of Wolf3D. The finished game needs only...

20

Adventure Game Studio

67 Released 2009 Public Domain licence

Adventure Game Studio allows you to create your own point-and-click adventure games, similar to the early 90's Sierra and Lucasarts adventures. It consists...

21

Unknown

173 TBD Commercial licence

The engine used to build this game is unknown. This is not a _real_ game engine, this is a generic placeholder.

22

Lumberyard

147 Released 2016 Commercial licence

Amazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine for you to create the highest-quality games, connect your games to the vast compute and storage...

23

RPG Maker MV

20 Released 2015 Commercial licence

RPG Maker was born to fulfill the desire of creating an original RPG without programming knowledge. Four years have passed since the release of the previous...

24

Unreal Engine 3

4 Released 2007 Commercial licence

Unreal Engine 3 is a complete game development framework for next-generation consoles and DirectX9-equipped PCs, providing the vast array of core technologies...

25

EDuke32

11 Released 2004 GPL licence

It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all outta gum!

26

Unreal Engine 2

19 Released 2000 Commercial licence

Unreal Engine 2 is a complete game development framework targeted at today's mainstream PC's, Microsoft's Xbox game console, and Sony's PlayStation 2.

27

jMonkeyEngine

21 Released 2009 BSD licence

jMonkeyEngine is a game development suite made especially for game developers who want to create 3D games with modern technology standards. The software...

28

FPSC

18 Released 2005 Commercial licence

This engine is the code behind "The game Creator's" FPS Creator development tool, A powerful, yet rough FPS engine.

30

Anvil

269 Released 2007 Proprietary licence

Anvil (also known by its development name Scimitar) is a game engine created by video game developer Ubisoft for use on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation...

31

PhyreEngine

7 Released 2008 Commercial licence

PhyreEngine (also known as Phyre Engine) is a free to use, cross platform (Windows PC, PSP, Xbox 360, PS Vita and PS3) game engine from Sony Computer...

32

Xash3D Engine

30 Released 2011 GPL licence

Xash3D is the powerful independent open-sourced 3D-engine, aimed for high compatibility with GoldSource engine formats (maps, models, textures, sounds...

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